| “On Contiguity and Cancelation: Latinx Lessons from Palestine,” American Studies Association Conference, Montreal | 2023 |
| “From Subjectless Latinidad to Objectless Latinx Critique,” 5th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York | 2023 |
| “Dead as the New Live: Blackness and Queer Latinx Studies,” Latinx Studies Association, South Bend, Indiana | 2022 |
| “Bodies Undone: Soma Studies in an Age of Colorblindness,” American Comparative Literature Association, virtual | 2022 |
| “Latinx Method: Lingering in Cancelation,” MLA International, Glasgow, Scotland | 2022 |
| “From the Gayborhood to the Nation: Reading the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) as Safe Space,” MLA, LLC 19th-Century Latin American: “Queer(ing) 19th Century,” virtual | 2021 |
| “Feeling What’s Not There: Latinidad Between Affect and Emotion in Carmen María Machado,” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Boston | 2020 |
| “Crying Fabulous Tears, Or Reading La Llorona loca and La Loca que llora,” MLA, GS Folklore, Myth and Fairy Tale, Seattle | 2020 |
| “When the Closet becomes the Street: The Space and Feeling of Queer Subjectivity in Mundo cruel,” 4th Biennial Latinx Literature and Theory Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York | 2019 |
| “Why Does Manner Matter?: Reading for Affect in Latinx Literature,” Capacious Conference ‘Affect Inquiry Making Space,’ Lancaster, PA | 2018 |
| “Feeling and Writing Beyond the Subject: Manuel Muñoz and Latinx Mood,” Latinx Studies Association, Washington D.C. | 2018 |
| “Latinx as Disidentification: Finding Resistance in the Signifier,” MLA, LLC Latina and Latino, New York | 2018 |
| “Reading The People of Paper as a Dictator Novel: The Battle and Limits of Subject Formation,” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Baltimore | 2017 |
| “The Coloring of Affect in Latino Bodies and Bodies of Text,” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Boston | 2017 |
| “On the Surface of Brujos: A Performance of Pedagogy and Affect in a Queer-of-Color Webseries,” 3rd Biennial Latinx Literature and Theory Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York | 2017 |
Conference Presentations
Invited Talks
| “Threads of Guileless Gold: Colorblind Aesthetics in Carmen María Machado,” Bucknell Humanities Center Symposium “Race & Sex in Latinx Theatre,” Bucknell University | 2024 |
| “From Thesis to Monograph,” Spanish Association for American Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain | 2023 |
| “Gloria Anzaldúa and Eduardo Corral: Queer Latinidad Then and Now,” Latina Culture Through Literature Seminar, Ithaca College | 2021 |
| “Feeling What’s Not There: Latinidad and Affect in Carmen María Machado,” Latin American Latino Studies Internal Seminar Series (LALSIS), University of Pennsylvania | 2020 |
| “Affective Readings of Form and Subjectivity in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper,” Colloquium for the Study of Latino/a/x Theory and Culture, CUNY Graduate Center, New York | 2019 |
Panels Convened
| Co-organizer, “Latinx Methods” (three linked roundtables), Latinx Studies Associations, ASU | 2024 |
| Co-organizer, “Colorblindness for All,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia | 2024 |
| Co-organizer, “Canceling a Field: Rethinking Solidarities in Latinx Literature,” American Studies Association Conference, Montreal | 2023 |
| Moderator and co-organizer, “The Death and Life of a Category: Unmaking and Remaking Latinidad,” 5th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York | 2023 |
| Chair and organizer, “Coming Out Anew: The Forms and Feelings of Queer Latinx Culture (1987-2019),” Latinx Studies Association Conference, Notre Dame (Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic) | 2021 |
| Co-chair and organizer, “Race and Racism in an Age of Colorblindness,” American Comparative Literature Association, virtual | 2021 |
| Chair and organizer, “Affect in American Literatures” Panels I & II, Northeastern Modern Language Association, Boston | 2020 |
| Chair and moderator, “Transfigurations: Why Theory Matters When Reading ‘Minority’ Literatures,” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. | 2019 |
| Chair and organizer, “Space & Psyche in Contemporary Latinx and Latin American Culture,” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh | 2018 |
| Chair and organizer, “Narrating Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism in Latin American Literature and Film,” Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium, University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
Conferences Co-Organized
| “Queer Urgencies Conference,” University of Pennsylvania | 2019 |
| “Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Colloquium,” University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
| 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference “Precarious Embodiments,” Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
Tommy Conners 